Offer

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Seeing that the two had eaten the pills given to them, Samato turned to Hiko and, under his gaze, threw the pill into his mouth, asked.

- We'd better get poisoned tomorrow morning. Some people need to pass into themselves.

Looking at the children, Hiko nodded his head a little thoughtfully.

- Okay, you need to be ready to perform early tomorrow morning. After looking around the room, he continued. – Take the corpse to the next room and rest here. I'll go to the next house and talk to the head of this village.

- Good!

Turning around, Hiko left the room, leaving the trio alone. After exchanging glances between each other, silence hung in the room. Samato sighed and walked over to the table. Removing the storage scroll from his back and putting it on the table, he pulled up a chair and sat down. Taking out one of the storage scrolls on his hip and folding the seal, Samato printed out another rather ordinary scroll.

Having attached the storage scroll back and relaxed leaned on the back of the chair, he unfolded the usual scroll and began to read. The two who were watching him looked at him strangely.

- What are you doing?

- Do you have a byakugan, but are you blind? Maybe it's some kind of mutation or defect. But since you can't see, I'll answer, I'm reading.

Kuzu, who asked the question, glared angrily, but without saying anything went to the opposite side of the room. As he was about to sit down, a voice interrupted him.

- Why are you sitting down? Remove the corpse.

Frozen and looking at the speaker Satoshi and the corpse, reluctance flashed in Kuzu's eyes.

- Why me?

- This is your mistake and you have to clean up after yourself. And wipe the blood off your cheek.

Satoshi said decisively and walked over and sat down opposite the reading Samato. Surprised, Kuzu touched his cheek and felt something, quickly took a rag and wiped his face. After hesitantly looking at the corpse and slowly approaching it, he hesitantly froze. After standing for a few seconds and sighing decisively, Kuzu took the corpse by the clothes and pulled it out of the room.

In less than a few minutes, a slightly pale Kuzu returned to the room. Looking at Satoshi, he pointed with his finger and said.

"W-why is there so much blood?"

Hearing the question, Satoshi shuddered internally, but keeping his expression, he answered irritably.

- What do you think? Because of you dumbass, if it wasn't for your stupid mistake, I would have easily killed him. But since you are a talentless trash, my goal woke up and I had to act on the situation.

Hearing a new barrage of insults, Kuzu again wanted to answer something, but the words did not deign to come out of his mouth. Without saying a word, he turned around and went to the other side of the room.

Taking out his only storage scroll and unfolding it, Kuzu folded the seal. A folded sleeping bag appeared in a cloud of smoke from the scroll. After putting the scroll back and unwrapping the sleeping bag, Kuzu lay down on it.

Sitting and reading the scroll, Samato thought about tomorrow.

"The pill I gave to Kuzu has a double shell and should take effect tomorrow. It can also work with heavy loads on the body. The pill should slowly weaken his body, slow down his reaction and lower his coordination. Now, it is necessary to somehow encourage our hero to feats. Preferably against several ninjas. There is also a problem with interfering observers. I hope they don't have time to save the hero at the last moment."

After calculating a few more ideas, Samato looked at the teammate sitting in front of him, who, resting his head on his hand on the table, was lost in his thoughts. Noticing the changes in his partner out of the corner of his eye, Satoshi focused and saw that he was looking at him. Raising an eyebrow in surprise, he asked quietly.

- What's the matter?

Samato quickly glanced at Kuzu, who was already sleeping with his back to them, put the scroll on the table and bent down, approached Satoshi. Pointing his finger at his ear, he asked him to bend over as well. Even more surprised, Satoshi complied with his partner's request. As they approached each other, Samato asked in a whisper.

- What do you think about Kuzu?

- Um, well, I guess? Well, he's an idiot and an untalented weakling, capable only of interfering.

Smiling, Samato nodded as if in agreement.

- Yes, he really is a nobody who can't prove anything to anyone in this life. I heard from my father that his uncle would abandon him if he did not prove himself in this mission.

- Yes? I didn't hear that from Grandma.

- Of course I haven't, I found out by accident myself.

- Hmm, serves him right!

- Listen, how about we stop him from proving himself?

Surprised by the sudden offer, Satoshi asked in surprise.

- Why?

- Don't you want to pay him back for setting you up? Surely Hiko saw this from the outside and will report to the elders, and this may affect your reputation in the clan.

As if having seen the light, Satoshi cast an evil glance at the lying Kuzu. Then he inquiringly, with undisguised hatred, asked.

- What do you propose to do?!

- There is nothing significant, we just need to defeat the ninja bandits first, without letting Kuzu do it. As for the gang leader, here we will have to work together to defeat him.

A little uncomprehendingly, Satoshi asked in a confused tone.

- But why? Do you think he's that strong?

- Most likely. He was able to create a group of 70 people, with five ninjas under his control. If his group remained unpunished for so long, it means that the small clans on whose territory they were rampaging could not have anything to oppose against him. So we'll have to team up with you.

- And then how do we get Kuzu not to interfere with us? He will definitely want to come with us as well.

Hearing the right question, Samato smiled cunningly and whispered.

- And we'll just tell him to take care of ordinary bandits. You just need to say that this will allow him to prove himself and he, like the fool he is, will run into the crowd. Well how, do you like the offer?

On Satoshi's face, a smile also spread and nodding, he said.

- Okay, okay, I agree.

- Well, okay, that's settled. Now let's go to bed, it's late.

- Yes, yes.

Getting up and opening the sleeping bags from the scroll, the two also lay down. Lying in a sleeping bag, Samato squinted at Kuzu and smiled, closed his eyes.